1. Early life and education

2. Career
     Views on LGBT rights  

3. References

4. External links

Early life and education

A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, Hagedorn graduated from Trinity International University in 2000 and was employed by Hewitt Associates before receiving his law degree from Northwestern University in 2006.^[4] At Northwestern, Hagedorn was president of the school's Federalist Society chapter.^[5]

Career

Hagedorn was an attorney at the Milwaukee firm Foley and Lardner until 2009, when he was appointed as a law clerk to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman.^[4]

In 2010, Hagedorn was employed as an assistant attorney general in the Wisconsin Department of Justice.^[4][5]

In December 2010, Hagedorn was appointed by Republican Governor-elect Scott Walker as his chief legal counsel, an office he occupied through July 2015. As chief legal counsel, Hagedorn was a drafter of Walker's controversial Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill of 2011.^[4]

In 2014, he served as appointing authority for defense counsel hired to represent state prosecutors sued by targets of a John Doe probe into Walker's staff.^[6]

On July 30, 2015, Walker appointed Hagedorn to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals to be chambered in the Waukesha-based District II. Hagedorn took office on August 1, 2015 and replaced Richard S. Brown, who served on the court from 1978 to 2015 and as chief judge from 2007.^[7]

Views on LGBT rights

In the mid-2000s, while Hagedorn was in law school, he argued that the Supreme Court ruling that found that anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional could lead to legalized bestiality (citing to the dissent of Justice Antonin Scalia), stating in an October 2005 blog post that criticized the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Lawrence v. Texas, "..render laws prohibiting bestiality unconstitutional [because] the idea of homosexual behavior is different than bestiality as a constitutional matter is unjustifiable".^[12] He also argued that gay pride month created "a hostile work environment for Christians."^[12]

In 2016, Hagedorn founded a Protestant school whose code of conduct bars teachers, parents and students from "participating in immoral sexual activity (defined as any form of touching or nudity for the purpose of evoking sexual arousal apart from the context of marriage between one man and one woman). Teachers who violate the policy can be dismissed and students can be expelled for their or their parents' actions. The school's "Statement of Faith" also speaks against transgender individuals, stating "Adam and Eve were made to complement each other in a one-flesh union that establishes the only normative pattern of sexual relations for men and women," and"..., men and women are not simply interchangeable, nor is gender subject to one's personal preferences." Following reports of Hagedorn's founding of the school in February 2019. the Wisconsin Realtors Association withdrew support for Hagedorn and asked Hagedorn to return an $18,000 donation it made to him in January, 2019.^[8] Hagedorn sits on the board of Augustine Academy, a school that bans gay teachers, students and parents

The Associated Press reported on February 21, 2019 that Hagedorn was paid more than $3,000 to give speeches between 2015 and 2017 to a Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom, which has supported criminalizing sodomy and advocated for sterilizing transgender people.^[9][10][11]

References

External links

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